The SALT LAKE DESERET MORNING NEWS reports on a frightening fight involving a couple University of Utah football players and a recruit.

It happened Saturday night, and the players claim they were attacked by a “group of men” who initially yelled obscenities from their car at the athletes and their friends as they walked away from a gathering at a house in a Salt Lake City neighborhood.

The players, freshman defensive end Paul Kruger, junior defensive lineman Greg Newman and Kruger’s younger brother David, a recruit who plans to sign with the Utes next month, claim they told the men to “shut up” and “get out of here“. Newman then threw a snowball at the car, which apparently prompted those surly “group of men” to get out of the car and approach the players.

That’s when things got really, REALLY ugly. Read more…